A position followed by a company name

If the company name weren’t there, one would say “the chief technology officer” but if the name of a position is prefixed by a name of a company, then can you lose the article “the”? Wouldn’t you say “The IBM chief technlogy officer” ?

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If it was one company, it would probably read, "Kinsella's chief technology officer" indicating the the person is the chief technology officer OF Kinsella ('s indicating the possessive like 'of' would).

In the example you give, it would have to be Kinsella and AS&E's or something equally unwieldy, and so it was probably changed for simplicity sake, or could just be a typo (I see them in the New York Times all the time).

To include 'the' you would need an 'of' to indicate the possessive, by omitting the 'the' you should have an 's to indicate that the CTO belongs to the companies in question.

The example was misleading. Kinsella is a last name of a person. AS&E is the name of the company. So the question really is:Which is correct:"AS&E chief technology officer Joseph Callerame usher me into ..."Or"The AS&E chief technology officer Joseph Callerame usher me into ..."

The job title lost its initial article, not because it was preceded by the name of the company, but because it was followed by the name of the jobholder. This becomes clearer when you remember that "Senator" is likewise a job title: